My husband has worked for major aluminum companies most of his career. He likes to occasional talking about the fact that aluminum is the one metal that can be recycled an infinite number of times. Thanks for the clear description. I can now share with hubby ;)
I never realized there were so many grades of metals. I'm learning a lot from your channel. I wanted to ask for your advice. My teen son is autistic. We've been working on taking things apart to be recycled. My hope is to give him a way to get out his frustrations by being destructive but with a positive outcome. He has some interest in the inner workings of appliances and electronics but I am not confident in my ability to know what's safe for him and what isn't as far as the inner parts. Do you have any suggestions on things a beginner would find easy to recycle, besides pop cans? Are there any appliances or electronics to stay away from? Is there anything as a business you'd prefer intact? Thank you for your time. 😃
I know what you mean. I have been scrapping different kinds of metals and the different grades for a little over 2 years now. Since then, I have been keeping the different types and grades of scrap metals separated. Keeps the scrap yards happy that way.
This was my job at my local scrap yard. I hand sorted and bailed all the different types and grades of allumiinum. Siding and gutters we called "painted" aluminum. I did all our wire by hand too and bailed it, including 1,2 and grade 3 chops. Christmas lights sounded like popcorn in the bailer. I did all the street lights in my city by hand too. We also crushed cast bbq's that was fun to bail, the whole building would shake when I crushed my bails. AC rads, and brass rads were the best to bail, it was so satisfying to crush and watch the rads squish together.
Our can bails stayed indoors with me in the bailer room so they got heat in the winter to dry and keep out of rain in summer. I have a picture of me cannon balling into a roll off bin full of cans from pop cans for charity. Mine wires were my least favorite to process the fibreglass material made me itch for days. We would just dump an entire roll off bin full of a big ball of mine wires (steel tech, aluminum tech, bx cables etc) and I would cut it apart and sort all the different types all the way down to if the inside wires were plated copper, bare copper or alluminum then hand bail it in our machine.
Hey this is a great video. It's very interesting with great content. You are also correct. Although I didn't think the separation of the various types of metals was as simple as just crushing, bundling and shipping. I sure wasn't aware of all the additional required steps in preparing all the different types of aluminum. And that's just aluminum. So the purpose of this vert long ass post is. Please keep creating these very informative, interesting and very fricken cool videos!!😅 😅. You're doing an awesome job!!
Happy to see you Americans no longer say"junkyard". Junk is just that,rubbish at the bottom of the tip. This is scrap,a critical part of the material recycling industry.Good for you Mike and crew. 1:281:28
.....one more thing....even though I'm retired and don't consider myself too old. If I lived closer to your facility. I'm prettyvsure I'd apply for a job....lol
I love it I love it I love it!!! Please could you do a video on the different grades of scrap electric motors and how much copper they have on average?
Thank you Michael for sharing the what the different grades of aluminum are. I always keep, or at least try to keep the grade of aluminum processed and separated separated as much as possible. I have learned that over the past 2 years that I have been a metal scrapper in the scrap industry and how some grades of aluminum are worth more than the other grades of aluminum.
I remember a time when some scrapyards would only take aluminum if you had a ton or more.times have changed for aluminium alot as well as all many others.keep up the recycling my friends,Salutee👊
Love it. What would be valuable is knowing the $ valuable differences... maybe not today, as that might jeopardize business but maybe a snapshot of a previous time (6months, year. 3 year).
Love the informative content I run a mobile mechanic business and also haul scrap from time to time so it's information that will probably help me at some point
I don’t know if you get many old and I mean 60-70’s cast aluminum HP factory intakes in, but you might want to have a little catalog notebook handy if any come through. The reason I mentioned this is I’m restoring a 1972 Oldsmobile W-30 442, that I bought brand new, the intakes on these models were manufactured by Winters. I have restored literally hundreds of muscle cars of all manufacturers, so I’m no novice building them. When I was upgrading the power train, I noticed the intake had a few hairline cracks in it, so I decided to check for another factory unit to replace it. That’s when the sticker shock hit, the cheapest I could find was $2500, and was in worse shape than mine, I did manage to find a new pristine in the box from 1972 intake, but it was just under $10,000 and yes I did say 10 grand! I had mine repaired, some of the rarest old school factory intakes are literally worth their weight in gold. If I had bought that intake, it would have cost over double what I paid for the whole car brand new. Ridiculous!
Grades of brass . Is there still a lot if Red brass meibgb m manufactured and recycled to yards and yellow brass with spring and stainless screws in then. propane values for instance
On them aluminum and copper radiators if you cut the u shape copper ends off the outside then you tap the steel end off with a hammer then you have cleaned copper and steel
The Radiators with copper are use in Cast Aluminum for die casting, the copper content gives the aluminum a flex, bending feature with silicon rock for harness we burned 1000's of tons of radiators for the mix to make .380 alloy....I think plus sows n pigs from Russia...J L French Die Casting think they went under
I think it was an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, or it could have been the late Huell Howser, but anyway it was at an aluminum recycling center and the man in charge said that there was over Fifteen THOUSAND types/alloys of that metal....
I watched Steve Morris Engines-he generates hundreds of pounds of aluminum chips as a result of CNC machining-this must be premium aluminum product-do you see any of it and how would you deal with it…?
It’s too bad the beer cans have so much paint on them. It must be filthy when they go to melt down those cans. In this day and age the beverage company could apply a laser printed QR code with the information on it to reference the advertising information, and a simple number so the old alkies could know what they’re getting. That way Uncle Buddy could stay off that Bud Light(027), and go hard on the Coors(512). 😎 Eco Friendly self destruction for the win.
Thanks for the reminders Michael. Sometimes us scrappers just want to sell it and forget it.
Yes, very interesting the different grades of aluminum.
I can smell that place through the screen. It's a unique smell.
Smells like honest money
My husband has worked for major aluminum companies most of his career. He likes to occasional talking about the fact that aluminum is the one metal that can be recycled an infinite number of times. Thanks for the clear description. I can now share with hubby ;)
I never realized there were so many grades of metals. I'm learning a lot from your channel. I wanted to ask for your advice. My teen son is autistic. We've been working on taking things apart to be recycled. My hope is to give him a way to get out his frustrations by being destructive but with a positive outcome. He has some interest in the inner workings of appliances and electronics but I am not confident in my ability to know what's safe for him and what isn't as far as the inner parts. Do you have any suggestions on things a beginner would find easy to recycle, besides pop cans? Are there any appliances or electronics to stay away from? Is there anything as a business you'd prefer intact? Thank you for your time. 😃
Watch out for capacitors in microwaves if they have not been discharged.
I know what you mean. I have been scrapping different kinds of metals and the different grades for a little over 2 years now. Since then, I have been keeping the different types and grades of scrap metals separated. Keeps the scrap yards happy that way.
Microwaves and Tube tv’s need lots of care to be torn apart properly, as they have dangerous materials inside
Fascinates me on how you know what each grade is. I never knew there was so many grades. Please keep up the good work!
This was my job at my local scrap yard. I hand sorted and bailed all the different types and grades of allumiinum. Siding and gutters we called "painted" aluminum. I did all our wire by hand too and bailed it, including 1,2 and grade 3 chops. Christmas lights sounded like popcorn in the bailer. I did all the street lights in my city by hand too. We also crushed cast bbq's that was fun to bail, the whole building would shake when I crushed my bails. AC rads, and brass rads were the best to bail, it was so satisfying to crush and watch the rads squish together.
Our can bails stayed indoors with me in the bailer room so they got heat in the winter to dry and keep out of rain in summer. I have a picture of me cannon balling into a roll off bin full of cans from pop cans for charity. Mine wires were my least favorite to process the fibreglass material made me itch for days. We would just dump an entire roll off bin full of a big ball of mine wires (steel tech, aluminum tech, bx cables etc) and I would cut it apart and sort all the different types all the way down to if the inside wires were plated copper, bare copper or alluminum then hand bail it in our machine.
Hey this is a great video. It's very interesting with great content. You are also correct. Although I didn't think the separation of the various types of metals was as simple as just crushing, bundling and shipping. I sure wasn't aware of all the additional required steps in preparing all the different types of aluminum. And that's just aluminum. So the purpose of this vert long ass post is. Please keep creating these very informative, interesting and very fricken cool videos!!😅 😅. You're doing an awesome job!!
Happy to see you Americans no longer say"junkyard". Junk is just that,rubbish at the bottom of the tip. This is scrap,a critical part of the material recycling industry.Good for you Mike and crew. 1:28 1:28
Good call I enjoy you switching it up. Dam you know your stuff 👍🇨🇦
Show the different grades of copper and brass please. 😊
Well done. I have been pulling aluminum out of dumps and free piles to sell for years and never knew about the various grades.
.....one more thing....even though I'm retired and don't consider myself too old. If I lived closer to your facility. I'm prettyvsure I'd apply for a job....lol
I love it I love it I love it!!!
Please could you do a video on the different grades of scrap electric motors and how much copper they have on average?
Awesome education video. I appreciate the info
Thank you Michael for sharing the what the different grades of aluminum are. I always keep, or at least try to keep the grade of aluminum processed and separated separated as much as possible. I have learned that over the past 2 years that I have been a metal scrapper in the scrap industry and how some grades of aluminum are worth more than the other grades of aluminum.
Thanks that's very helpful information 👍
I remember a time when some scrapyards would only take aluminum if you had a ton or more.times have changed for aluminium alot as well as all many others.keep up the recycling my friends,Salutee👊
Love it. What would be valuable is knowing the $ valuable differences... maybe not today, as that might jeopardize business but maybe a snapshot of a previous time (6months, year. 3 year).
Thank you. I'm learning.
well put and appreciate the run down. like the mention of siding and guttering would be interested on what typically makes up each bail.
The Modern Day Fred Sanford! Love the videos!
Thanks dude. Great job.
Well I could have built a boat with that. Just kidding. Never knew there were so many different types of aluminum materials. Nice content. Thanks
Very informative 😃 Great videos
How far away are the mills? 😊
Do you have the "magic " gun that tells you what alloy steel or non ferrous metals are?
Great vid. Keep up the content.
Was very informative. 👍 Like to see about brass and stainless.
Great video, really interesting to learn about the different grades and various requirements!
Wow nice work!
Thanks been junking 4 20 plus years and I learned some things!
This was great. I’d love to see more.
that was very interesting thank you very much.
That’s a good one. Thanks!!
Excellent video. Thanks
Nicely done very informative.
Very informative and interesting, please keep this type of videos coming.👍
I enjoy all of your videos.. the information one's are as interesting as the fun ones !! Great job Mike 👍
I like the educational videos a lot, appreciate it.
No matter what videos you post all of them are very interesting and entertaining .Keep up the good work Mike and crew.👍
Love the informative content I run a mobile mechanic business and also haul scrap from time to time so it's information that will probably help me at some point
Thanks for sharing the info on all the different grades of aluminum. Is it a manual effort to sort and to determine the type or grade of aluminum ?
👍 great explanation
Great video!
HEY HEY HEY ......GOOD TO SEE YA FELLAR
I work in a scrap yard in Myrtle Beach music to my ears.
Id like to learn more about how you separate aluminum
I don’t know if you get many old and I mean 60-70’s cast aluminum HP factory intakes in, but you might want to have a little catalog notebook handy if any come through. The reason I mentioned this is I’m restoring a 1972 Oldsmobile W-30 442, that I bought brand new, the intakes on these models were manufactured by Winters. I have restored literally hundreds of muscle cars of all manufacturers, so I’m no novice building them. When I was upgrading the power train, I noticed the intake had a few hairline cracks in it, so I decided to check for another factory unit to replace it. That’s when the sticker shock hit, the cheapest I could find was $2500, and was in worse shape than mine, I did manage to find a new pristine in the box from 1972 intake, but it was just under $10,000 and yes I did say 10 grand! I had mine repaired, some of the rarest old school factory intakes are literally worth their weight in gold. If I had bought that intake, it would have cost over double what I paid for the whole car brand new. Ridiculous!
Very Interesting. I do a lot of scrapping so now that's a little better Insite on that nonferrous metal
Awesome video. Do you throw AAAC in with your ACSR/insulated EC? Hard to separate out
Great video
Grades of brass . Is there still a lot if Red brass meibgb m manufactured and recycled to yards and yellow brass with spring and stainless screws in then.
propane values for instance
great vid!
What about the zinc and magnesium materials?
I prefer the educational content. Maybe you could take us on a trip to a mill.
Do you guys recycle tires? My scrapyard charges to take them.
how expensive is it to run a yard like that?
What about aluminum castings?
On them aluminum and copper radiators if you cut the u shape copper ends off the outside then you tap the steel end off with a hammer then you have cleaned copper and steel
What happens to scrap material or a scrap load with radiation?
will see some scrapping on my channel here & there
The Radiators with copper are use in Cast Aluminum for die casting, the copper content gives the aluminum a flex, bending feature with silicon rock for harness we burned 1000's of tons of radiators for the mix to make .380 alloy....I think plus sows n pigs from Russia...J L French Die Casting think they went under
I still have a few ford full copper radiators.
I think it was an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, or it could have been the late Huell Howser, but anyway it was at an aluminum recycling center and the man in charge said that there was over Fifteen THOUSAND types/alloys of that metal....
What about wheel rims and diamond plate
I almost forgot that stuff but when I scrap I got for sperated so I get all I can
You should do a video like this on copper
If I wanna import these? Will it be possible?
all types of scrap u made in bundle there sir
How Often Do You Come Across Rare Car's, Or Rare Car Part's 🤔?,
And What's The Most Valuable "Anything",
You've Ever Come Across 🤔?
Look, man, I'm just soooo ready for the Waco u pull yard, just saying!
Good explanation.
I watched Steve Morris Engines-he generates hundreds of pounds of aluminum chips as a result of CNC machining-this must be premium aluminum product-do you see any of it and how would you deal with it…?
👍
I didn’t see any alloy wheels
It’s too bad the beer cans have so much paint on them. It must be filthy when they go to melt down those cans.
In this day and age the beverage company could apply a laser printed QR code with the information on it to reference the advertising information, and a simple number so the old alkies could know what they’re getting. That way Uncle Buddy could stay off that Bud Light(027), and go hard on the Coors(512). 😎 Eco Friendly self destruction for the win.
Who separates 🤦♂️
Hello, I have pressed aluminum waste, I want a buyer
Always running out of 6063
I want buying aluminium scrap 500mt per month
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Do you sell direct to the mill or through a broker?
Hii Michael I m from India I want to contact you
I m the buyer of all
Battery scrap
Copper scrap
Honey scrap
ALLUMINUM scrap
Zinc scrap